Rd Thompson wrote in a message to Alan Rackmill:
 RT> Hi Alan, as you were just saying about Censorship....
AR> AR>  RT> Did you realize that she recieved severe burns in her
AR> AR>  RT> genital area (the part that you can't mention)?  Bottom line
AR> AR>  RT> is that the coffee in that particular Mickey Dees *was*
AR> AR>  RT> overheated.  
AR> AR> 
AR> AR> It was not overheated.
AR> 
AR>  RT> Compared to the rest of the industry, yes, it was.  It was
AR>  RT> served at over 180 degrees.  Boiling is only 212.
AR> 
AR> it was heated to a higher temperature than most other 
AR> places, but it was not "overheated".  ;-)
 RT> We disagree, but since we were not on the jury it didn't
 RT> make any difference.  :^)
(snip)
AR> 
AR> Right.
AR> And when the jury was asked how they came up with the figure of 
AR> $2,000,000.00, they said that it represented two days worth 
AR> of coffee receipts for McDonald's, according to the figures 
AR> it was given about the sales of coffee.
AR> 
AR> Hmmmmm, that would amount to about roughly one million cups 
AR> of coffee sold daily.
AR> I forget how many people get burned while drinking 
AR> McDonald's coffee, but I wonder why there aren't more suits?
 RT> We probably don't hear about the folks who complained that
 RT> their coffee was too cold.
Funny you should say that.
In today's paper, on the comics page.The character ZIGGY isd in a diner, with 
a plate of soup in front of him, and the cook on the other side of the 
counter.
The caption has the cook saying:
"Darn right your soup is COLD... I don't want some smart aleck suing me!"
Alan
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